INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCHOLASTIC CONCLAVE 2016 PRESENTS QUESTION HOUR: THE WORLD POLITICS QUIZ. Conducted by: Krishnadev Roy

1. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
SCHOLASTIC CONCLAVE 2016
PRESENTS
QUESTION HOUR:
THE WORLD POLITICS QUIZ
Conducted by: Krishnadev Roy

2. PRELIMS

3. GENERAL RULES
• 20 Question Prelims
• Top 8 teams qualify for the final
• Question nos. 1, 5, 10, 15, 20 are star marked
• The no. of correct starred questions will be used to
break ties, if any
• If that’s not enough, then we follow the rule of ‘first
mistake’ or sudden death
• Prelims scores shall be used to break ties in the final
• Please do not consult your friend Google during the
quiz
• Quizmaster’s decision is final
Good luck!

4. 1*
• Image next slide.
• Describe what you see in one word (a
Geopolitical term)

6. Balkanization
• The process of fragmentation or division
of a region or state into smaller regions
or states that are often hostile or
uncooperative with one another.

7. 2
• The term ______ _________ has two meanings.
• It was an economic system proposed in 1902
by Pierre Biétry, as an alternative to the "Red
Socialism" advocated in Marxism. It was
prominent until World War I, competing with
Marxism for support among workers.
• ______ _________ was also a Marxist term of
abuse for all non-Marxist socialists.
• After the war, the movement became absorbed
into fascism, and the previously developed
Austrian national socialism which from 1920
developed into Nazism.
• Fill in the blanks.

8. Yellow Socialism

9. 3
• Flag of what that is used during sporting
events?
• It has no status as an official flag in any
country.
• Image follows

11. Unified Korea
• The Unification Flag is designed to
represent all of Korea when North and
South Korea participate as one team in
sporting events.

12. 4
• The 1984 anti-Sikh riots was a series
of pogroms directed against Sikhs in India,
by anti-Sikh mobs, most notably by
members of the Congress party, in response
to the assassination of Indira Gandhi by
her Sikh bodyguards.
• Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as Prime
Minister after his mother's death and,
when asked about the riots, he gave a very
famous yet controversial reply.
• What did he say ?

13. “When a big tree falls, the
Earth shakes.”

14. 5*
• X refers to a sudden, violent overthrow of an
existing government by a small group.
• The chief prerequisite for X is the control of all
or part of the armed forces, the police, and other
military elements.
• Unlike a revolution, which is usually achieved
by large numbers of people working for basic
social, economic, and political change, X is a
change in power from the top that merely
results in the abrupt replacement of leading
government personnel.
• So what is X ?

15. Coup d’état

16. 6
• Writing about the transition of ________
from military gear to commercial product,
Vanessa Brown wrote that, “The War was a
… revelation of the sheer might, scale,
power, and horror of the modern world …
[which] necessitated a new kind of military
demeanour and gave rise to new definitions
of the heroic stance which was to have a
profound influence on modern fashion.”
• It is something that became hugely popular
during World War II.
• What is being talked about here ?

17. Aviators

18. 7
• According to X's account, on May 8, 1991, she was
escorted to Y's room in the Excelsior Hotel in Little
Rock, Arkansas, where he propositioned and
exposed himself to her.
• She claimed she kept quiet about the incident until
1994, when a David Brock story in the American
Spectator magazine printed an account.
• X filed a sexual harassment suit against Y on May
6, 1994, two days before the three-year statute of
limitations, and sought $750,000 in damages.
• Eventually, the court dismissed the X harassment
lawsuit, before trial, on the grounds that X failed to
demonstrate any damages. However, while the
dismissal was on appeal, Y entered into an out-of-
court settlement by agreeing to pay X $850,000.
• Identify X and Y.

19. X: Paula Jones
Y: Bill Clinton

20. 8
• A ______ _____ is a country lying between two
rival or potentially hostile greater powers.
• Its existence can sometimes be thought to
prevent conflict between them. A ______ _____ is
sometimes a mutually agreed upon area lying
between two greater powers, which is
demilitarized in the sense of not hosting the
military of either power (though it will usually
have its own military forces).
• The invasion of a ______ _____ by one of the
powers surrounding it will often result in war
between the powers.
• Fill in the blanks

21. Buffer State

22. 9
Whose selected Filmography ? [Clue: this is a Politics Quiz]
• Love Is on the Air, 1937
• Girls on Probation, 1938
• Brother Rat, 1938
• Smashing the Money Ring, 1939
• Tugboat Annie Sails Again, 1940
• Alice in Movieland, 1940
• Million Dollar Baby, 1941
• Mister Gardenia Jones, 1942
• This Is the Army, 1943
• Louisa, 1950
• She's Working Her Way Through College, 1952
• Prisoner of War, 1954
• Hellcats of the Navy, 1957
• The Killers, 1964

23. Ronald Reagan

24. 10*
• ______ _________ is a situation where important
laws and reforms are not passed because of lack
of commitment on part of the government or
inability of the government to reach a consensus
over the correct variation of the reform.
• For example, Jan Lokpal had been in the
parliament for quite some time before it's been
passed. It was lack of commitment or political
willingness of our politicians that had led to the
delay. Or the inability of the government to
reach consensus on important reforms like GST
or DTC.
• What two word term, that is almost like a
catchphrase in India, am I looking for ?

25. Policy Paralysis

26. 11
• What is Urban Dictionary describing here?
• “Usually associated with upper-middle-income
white people, but not necessarily. Can involve
driving the right car, getting the right foods,
having a professional/white-collar job, always
having "nice" things, $4 lattes at Starbucks or
elsewhere because you think you're above
Starbucks, having a well-diversified stock
portfolio and other retirement savings, having a
special set of dishes and everything else just for
Christmas, status-symbol kids or pets, carbon
offsets, thinking $15 wine is cheap, listening to
NPR, and gentrifying neighbourhoods”

27. Bourgeois

28. 12
• The pictures in the next few slides
became very popular following a certain
incident in 2011.
• What is its claim to fame ?
• Need a few keywords

32. • Osama bin Laden's
compound in Abbottabad,
where he was killed

33. 13
• How would you connect the following
nationalities ? (inexhaustive)
• The Afrikaners, the Albanians, the
Bulgarians, the Danes, the Dutch, the
Estonians, the Georgians, the Germans,
the Ancient Greeks, the Icelanders, the
Nigerians, the Norwegians, the
Pakistanis, the Poles, the Portuguese,
the Somali, the Swedes and the Swiss

34. Fatherland Nations

35. 14
• X is a 1977 film directed by Amrit Nahata, starring Shabana
Azmi, Raj Babbar, Utpal Dutt, among others.
• The film was a satire on the politics of Indira Gandhi and her
son Sanjay Gandhi and was banned by the Indian
Government during the Emergency period and all prints were
confiscated.
• The film was submitted to the Censor Board for certification
in April 1975. The film had spoofed the Sanjay Gandhi auto-
manufacturing plans, besides Congress supporters like
Swami Dhirendra Brahmachari, private secretary to Indira
Gandhi, R.K. Dhawan, and Rukhsana Sultana. A show-cause
notice raising 51 objections was sent to the producer by the
Information and Broadcasting ministry.
• In his reply submitted on July 11, 1975, Nahata (producer)
stated that the characters were "imaginary and do not refer to
any political party or persons".
• Identify the film, X.

36. Kissa Kursi Ka

37. 15*
• “After hearing from our community, we looked again
at how our Community Standards were applied in
this case. An image of a naked child would normally
be presumed to violate our Community Standards,
and in some countries might even qualify as child
pornography. In this case, we recognize the history
and global importance of this image in documenting
a particular moment in time," Facebook said in a
statement on 9th September, 2016.
• The editor of Norway's largest newspaper, Espen
Egil Hansen said that the 1972 Pulitzer Prize-
winning photograph by Nick Ut was taken down
by Facebook after it was published there by Tom
Egeland, a Norwegian writer since Facebook has a
strict policy on images that show nudity.
• What image is being talked about ?

38. Napalm Girl

39. 16
• This is one of the most iconic pictures to
have been taken in modern history.
• Identify the person whose face has been
blanked out.
• Image follows.

41. Che Guevara

42. 17
• Iranian Judoka, Arash Miresmaeili was the
favourite for the gold medal in the 2004 Summer
Olympics.
• As things turned out, he was disqualified even
before the first round began after he was found to
be overweight before his bout.
• Despite the setback, the then President of Iran was
reported to have stated that the nation considered
him to be “The Champion of the 2004 Olympic
Games.”
• It was later found out that Arash had gone on an
eating binge the night before the bout to purposely
increase his own weight.
• What was the reason behind the such a drastic
decision ?

43. • He refused to fight his Irsaeli opponent
to sympathise with the suffering of
the people of Palestine.

44. 18
• The Siege of X was a prolonged military
blockade undertaken mainly by the German
Army Group North against X, historically and
currently known as St. Petersburg, in
the Eastern Front theatre of World War II. The
siege started on 8 September 1941, when the
last road to the city was severed.
• The Battle of Y (23 August 1942 – 2 February
1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front
of World War II, in which Nazi Germany and its
allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the
city of Y in Southern Russia, on the eastern
boundary of Europe.
• For full points, identify both X and Y.

45. X: Leningrad
Y: Stalingrad

46. 19• The word X derives from a Greek term that translates
simply as “dominance over” and that was used to
describe relations between city-states.
• Its use in political analysis was somewhat limited until
its intensive discussion by the Italian politician and
philosopher Antonio Gramsci.
• X is basically the dominance of one group over another,
often supported by legitimating norms and ideas.
• “The term X is today often used as shorthand to describe
the relatively dominant position of a particular set of
ideas and their associated tendency to become
commonsensical and intuitive, thereby inhibiting the
dissemination or even the articulation of alternative
ideas.” - Encyclopædia Britannica
• What is X ?

47. Hegemony

48. 20*
• This speech is considered to be one of
the great public addresses of the modern
era.
• Identify the voice.

49. Robert F. Kennedy

50. FINALS TO FOLLOW